Becoming Enough 👏

Published September 14th, 2018by Erin Bush

Last night I went to a meet up on Imposter Syndrome that opened with a panel discussion. I’ve been to other panels before and while they have always been informative, I found myself walking away from last night internalizing so many eye opening pieces of advice. There is so much to apply to my life, not just in the workplace. I scrambled to scribble down the major takeaways from the event as there was so much. Here is what I found were the most valuable:

Imposter syndrome has a bodily aspect to it (make yourself smaller)

Imposter syndrome is failing to internalizing your own achievements

Society loves the wonderkid and you don’t see successes that incorporate a lot of failure (impossible to achieve overnight success)

Behind the feeling of imposter syndrome is how we learned the idea of failure and our relationship with the learning process

Don’t avoid writing code because you are scared to ask for help

Everyone brings something to the table even if they don’t have traditional education

Maybe Imposter Syndrome just one side of the human spectrum

Imposter Syndrome is an internal/external thing - your reaction and other people’s reaction

If you are looking for clues that you aren’t good enough, the world will definitely provide - change your focus to proof that you ARE doing a good job

We get asked insurmountable things that feel impossible when we are starting out but everyone has that feeling

✨Advice✨

Put your feelings and emotions on hold and put the projects and groups objectives before your own of inadequacy

Remember that you are here for a reason and things didn’t just fall into your lap

If you don’t know how you are doing - ask for feedback because it will be way more constructive than worrying